In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mer...e tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term abandonment, to describe the self-surrender of the orator.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It is the vice of our public speaking that it has not abandonment. Somewhere, not only every orator but every man should let out a...ll the length of all the reins; should find or make a frank and hearty expression of what force and meaning is in him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he i...s capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that, beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power, on which he can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him: then is he caught up into the life of the Universe, his speech is thunder, his thought is law, and his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of m...y ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It seems to me that the most important thing in Texas, as everywhere else, is education for all. I, of course, don't believe in fo...rcing whites and blacks together. But both classes should be fully provided for. I recognize fully the evil of rule by ignorance. I see enough of it under my own eyes. You are not so much worse off in this respect than New York, Chicago, and other cities having a large immigrant population. But the remedy is not, I am sure, to be found in the abandonment of the American principle that all must share in government. The whites of the South must do as we do, forget to drive and learn to lead the ignorant masses around them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contra...diction did not lead to the abandonment of the ideal of equal opportunity but rather to its postponement: to the notion of achieving for the next generation what could not be achieved for the current one. And the chief means to this end was a brilliant American invention: universal, free, compulsory public education. This "solution" was especially important for children and families because it gave children a central role in achieving the national ideal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of... everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp.... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »